The archives for August, 2008


Needle 30

Finally wicd 1.5.1

Little 1.5.1 days ago the famous manager of nets has been released wicd wired and wireless. After a long beta series and release candidates finally are themselves joints to the stable version dedicated above all to the resolution of some bug that plagued the version precedence. In order to enjoy wicd it is necessary to disinstallare network manager (the two managers are incompatible), to carry out the download of the packages for Ubuntu and to proceed here with the istallazione.

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Previously I have tested a version of development of Network Manager 0,7 and must say that although the most remarkable improvements of this last one, wicd is still sure advanced for power, flexibility and facility of use. N.M has from its a greater thoroughness, as it succeeds to manage not only the logons wired and wireless, but also the VPN and the PPP, however this not enough to fargli assigning the palm of better manager than net. Of the rest for the logons point to point there are tool much comfortable like Gnome ppp or Kppp. Quite impietoso the comparison version 0,6 of N.M lacking in the tool for VPN and PPP of which over and plagued from two fastidiosissmi bug: respective the difficulty in the configuration of the nets wireless and the browser firefox that it comes launch in modality not online when N.M is disconnected.

Needle 18

Electronic timetable

The beginning of the school is approached and this software sure will be appreciated who will have to sobbarcarsi the burden to construct the timetables of the Institutes. Orario_elettronico is a constructed application in order to supply a comfortable and flexible instrument in order to compile the scholastic timetable. The author uses wise php, mysql and apache succeeding to create a program for linux that, to part the graphical aspect, nearly nothing envies to the applications he trades them for windows.

orarel1.png Have installed I it on eeebuntu, the distro of mine “piccolino”:

  • To install through synaptic or from finishes them apache2, php5, mysql;
  • in the rows php.ini (in /etc/php5/apache2) to carry out the following modifications:

    max_execution_time = 30 - > 172800
    max_input_time = 60 - > 6000
    memory_limit = 30M - > 300M
    mysql.connect_timeout = 60 - > -1
    mysql.connect_timeout = -1 that it indicates that not there are limits:
    magic_quotes_gpc = On - > Off

  • download of electronic timetable;
  • to decompress the archives and to move the orario_elettronico folder on the root of the serveur apache (for me /var/www);
  • to set up the rights of writing with chmod a x orario_elettronico;
  • to open firefox and to type http://localhost/orario_elettronico/1_INIZIO_E_BUTTAMI.php;
  • to indicate only the name and password of the endowed customer of the administrator rights being left unchanged the all rest;
  • to eliminate the page 1_INIZIO_E_BUTTAMI.php (emergency issues);
  • to dgitare http://localhost/orario_elettronico/index.php and to carry out the login like administrator;
  • the database does not remain that popular of the necessary information and is already beautiful ready to the construction of our scholastic timetable.

orarel2.png

Naturally the hours scripts of automatic allocation of and all exist of a series of functions that you will discover in itinere. We want trovargli a defect? The diagram is not to the level of some software for windows and the characters turn out little ones too much on mine piccolino, but also on the notebook with screen 15 ″, however on the whole me it seems a worthy job of famous. orarel3.png

Ulterior information on the page put on hand from the author to link http://orarelettr.sourceforge.net/index.html.

Needle 17

Simply Paris!

Eccomi of return, tired in the physicist for the long walks under skies with wonderful Paris, but absolutely ritemprato in the mind and the spirit. Eh, because the bread is the food of the body, while the “beautiful one” is the nutriment of the spirit. louvre.JPG

Needle 6

K3b 1,95 svn on Kde 4.1

I said of the great applications that still lack to kde 4 for being truly complete and performante. One of these is k3b reached the version of development 1,95 that I have supplied to compile. I try to fly over on the rows .bashrc and the dependencies of compilation because already abundantly dealt in more post precedence and step directly to the phase of compilation anch'essa constructed to the usual way, but, obviously, of this are held to giving to account (various the post would not have sense):

Prerequisiti:
apt-get install libkcddb-dev-kde4 libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev;

Installation:
svn Co svn: /anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/extragear/multimedia/k3b multimedia/k3b;
cd multimedia/k3b;
mkdir it compiles;
cd it compiles;
cmake - DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDEDIR - DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull. /;
make;
make install.
k3bcomp.png

Needle 5

Who wants Lancelot?

After to have installed kde 4,1 with the guide mailed previously and to have enriched all with a beautiful one I sudo apt-get install kdeplasma-addons me has come a irresistibile wish to see close give the progresses of “our” Ivan Čukić in the construction of Lancelot. lancelotalpha2.png Here therefore that they are returned to my ancient love, the compilation:

Prerequisiti:
If the installed version of kde is that through packages precompiled (es. following my guide Kde 4,1, easy on Ubuntu Hardy in 5 steps) enough to add client svn, advanced Python 2,5 or and cmake, if instead you have compiled the version “trunk” you will already sure have installed all the development bookcases

Installation:
To modify the rows ~/.bashrc adding these lines:
export YACC='byacc - of
export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt4
export KDEDIR=/usr/lib/kde4
export KDEDIRS=$KDEDIR
export DBUSDIR=/usr
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$DBUSDIR/lib/pkgconfig: $PKG_CONFIG_PATH
export PATH=$QTDIR/bin: $KDEDIR/bin: $PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib: $KDEDIR/lib: $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
eval `PATH=$DBUSDIR/bin $DBUSDIR/bin/dbus-launch - car-syntax `;
To unload sources: svn Co svn: /anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/work/lancelot/kde4.1-backport lancelot;
to enter in. .lancelot;
to create a folder dedicated to the compilation (is maintained intact lancelot in way not to have more to effetuare the download in error case), mkdir compiles;
to enter in ../lancelot/compila;
to type cmake - DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDEDIR - DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release. /;
now make and make install.
I have had also to perhaps copy manually the org.kde.lancelot.service rows from /usr/lib/kde4/share/dbus-1/services/ to /usr/share/dbus-1/services because of an error in the setup of DBus.
Memory that is only a alpha even if enough stable and, second me, not too much far from the definitive version, therefore who wants Lancelot, compiles.